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Bangladeshi Citrus
« on: January 25, 2022, 01:01:26 PM »

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Re: Bangladeshi Citrus
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2022, 03:08:07 PM »
All of them have to be derived from citrons, especially the 1st and 2nd one. 2nd might be a regular citron but idk the exact names

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Re: Bangladeshi Citrus
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2022, 03:29:13 AM »
I think it was discussed here on the old forum
The biggest fruit...
https://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/thread/776/identification-lebu-banglesh-food-store

https://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/thread/775/identification-citrus-assam

Amazing to see these in a store ! All have the Bangladesh names on the boxes of fruit by the looks ???

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Re: Bangladeshi Citrus
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2022, 11:33:03 PM »
The picture looks to me like the type of thing you would get if you crossed a lime with a citron (I mean a lemon with more C. medica ancestry than the usual lemon).

These were to comments made to the video-

"You are probably right about the 1st one, It's just a lemon but a 'desi' lemon and desi fruits are considered the one's grown in villages as apposed to the commercially grown ones. 2nd one is, as the other people pointed out is gondhoraj (gondho means smell/fragrance and raj mean king/royalty so basically king of fragrance), and the third one is kagzi lebu"

"Bangladeshi here, these are all recognized as different varieties of lime. B is called elachi lebu and C is called kagoji lebu in our regional dialect. these are used as you'd normally use lime, for enhancing the taste of curries and daals, for teas etc. My mom loves to use C for lemonade because it's very fragrant. also, we only eat the rind of B as it is very thick and less bitter, goes great with rice and curry."
« Last Edit: January 26, 2022, 11:38:31 PM by SoCal2warm »

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Re: Bangladeshi Citrus
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2022, 04:33:47 PM »
All these fruit were purchased from stores in the USA ??? Anyone close enough to do a taste test ??

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Re: Bangladeshi Citrus
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2022, 09:28:55 AM »
> I think it was discussed here on the old forum
> https://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com
Well https://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com is the new forum.
The old one is http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com .
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